Multi-User Domains (MUDs) and Educational Possibilities

Telecommunications In Education (TIE) Meeting
Raleigh, North Carolina
March 28, 1996


More than anything else, the Internet is a community -- a community of people who have discovered resources both digital and human the access of which suffers no bound, neither political, sexual, racial, religious, nor appearance.

MUDs (or MUSEs, MOOs, MUCKs, etc) are text-based virtual environments the richness of which depend on the creativity and emotional effect of their descriptions. People meet, talk, play, and construct their own virtual environments under their own self-created identities in these MUDs.

For children, it provides an opportunity to shake off the constraints of the real world and interact and construct based on descriptive writing and text-based interaction. A treasure chest of experience is the prize and communication is the key.

This web page serves as a handout for a talk delivered by David Warlick to the Raliegh TIE (Telecommunications In Eduation) on March 28, 1996.


Resources:

Some Educational MUDs

Papers and Articles


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